Roughly two hours before the United States bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, Iowa pilot Paul Tibbets announced to his crew of the Enola Gay that they were carrying the "world's first atomic bomb." ...

It's been 80 years since then-Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr. flew an airplane called the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, Japan, dropping an atomic bomb known as "Little Boy" and ushering in the age of nuclear ...

The B-29 aircraft Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II. It raises the question, who was Enola Gay? Gay was the mother of Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr., the ...

Colonel (later General) Paul Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the “Little Boy” atomic bomb over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. In this documentary Tibbets co-produced with ...

As was his wont on long flights, Col. Paul Tibbets, piloting a B-29, puffed on his pipe as, 80 years ago Wednesday, he transported humanity from one geopolitical era to another. His radio operator was ...